Brother HL-2240D does not connect with Xubuntu 20.04

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 06:50, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 1:08 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 21:03, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting - that's how I had it configured for 18.04 and it was
> > > working fine.  It was configured as an HP-2140 IIRC.
> >
> > *Googles* Er, that seems to be a netbook PC, so probably not.
> >
> This was all on my desktop - not sure what the reference here is...

I Googled HP-2140 and I got only results for a netbook, not a printer.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-HP-Mini-2140-Netbook.16323.0.html

> I had a note in the file I use to track my configuration, and it said
> I was using an HP driver - forgot which one.  I thought that odd
> because for 18.04 I installed the Brother printer driver file (which I
> also no longer have - foo).

Why don't you have it? Does it no longer work?

> I'm not sure.  My Netgear WiFi USB device kind of gave out entirely -
> don't know if it was a hardware issue (Netgear says not since the
> system does list the device and Windows recognizes it) or a 20.04
> incompatibility.

Very odd. Can you try with a live USB?

If you have a largish stick lying around, Ventoy is useful for this.
Just drop a bunch of ISO files on it and it makes a multiboot stick.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

> However, the USB ports I was using ewre ports 0 and 1 on that line,
> and I moved the Brother plug to the next line over when it started
> working.  I wonder if there was some hardware issue with my M/B.  The
> M/B NIC port failed when I moved a few months ago, then began working
> again after the Netgear WiFi died.  Is there a connection there?  I
> can't see how.

Very odd. Noisy mains supply?

> FTR, I used a different, heavier ethernet cable this time.  I was able
> to get the older one to work with other machines.  Could be my
> hardware is getting tired - it's about 10 years old IIRC.

It could be some failing capacitors, then.

> I'm not fond of systemd either.  I had to use it two jobs back to
> manage RHEL 7 systems - what a pain.

Well, it's standard in Ubuntu now, too. No mainstream distro does
_not_ default to systemd, and it has provoked a fork of Debian.

> Thanks for all the info.  It's always good to keep up on what's what,
> and I've been quite lazy lately - not a good practice.

I am not sure I am the best source of the latest cutting-edge advice! o_O

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